Rock 100: The Summit

Summit leadership

HBS Chairs

• Thomas R. Eisenmann, Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration
• Joseph B. Lassiter, Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management
• Meredith L. McPherron, Director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship
• William A. Sahlman, Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff – MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration
• Noam T. Wasserman, Associate Professor of Business Administration

Honorary Chairs

• Jim Breyer – Accel Partners and Breyer Capital
• Karen Gordon Mills – Harvard Business School
• Arthur Rock – Founder of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship

Advisory Board Members

• Randy Altschuler – NextLine Manufacturing
• Marla Malcolm Beck – Bluemercury, Inc.
• Mike Cassidy – Google
• Scott Eckert - Rethink Robotics
• Jose Ferreira – Knewton
• David Frankel – Founder Collective
• Diane Hessan – Communispace
• Angie Hicks – Angie's List
• Aileen Lee – Cowboy Ventures
• Mike Maples, Jr – FLOODGATE
• Sheila Lirio Marcelo – Care.com
• Alexis Maybank – Gilt Groupe
• Terry McGuire – Polaris Partners
• Steve Papa – Parallel Wireless
• Victoria Ransom – Wildfire, a division of Google
• Neil Rimer – Index Ventures
• Phil Terry – Creative Good
• Alexandra Wilkis Wilson – Gilt Groupe

Small-Group Discussion Leaders

• Lynda Applegate, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration
• Jeffrey Bussgang, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
• Frank Cespedes, MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
• Joseph Fuller, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
• Shikhar Ghosh, Senior Lecturer, Mel Tukman Faculty Fellow
• Richard Hamermesh, MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice
• Felda Hardymon, MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice
• Gordon Jones, Director, Harvard Innovation Lab
• William Kerr, Associate Professor of Business Administration
• Rakesh Khurana, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development
• Karim Lakhani, Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration
• Eric Paley, Managing Partner, Founder Collective; HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence
• Ruben Pinchanski, Entrepreneur Fellow, Catalyst Partners; HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence
• Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Associate Professor of Business Administration
• Mike Roberts, Senior Lecturer
• Rudina Seseri, Partner, Fairhaven Capital; HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence
• Howard Stevenson, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus

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